1. Derek Trucks was born on June 8,1979 and is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band.
26 Facts About Derek Trucks
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Derek Trucks became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999.
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Derek Trucks is the nephew of the late Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers.
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Derek Trucks bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5 at age nine and became a child prodigy, playing his first paid performance at age 11.
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Derek Trucks began playing the guitar using a slide because it allowed him to play the guitar despite his small hands as a young guitarist.
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In 2006 Derek Trucks began a studio collaboration with JJ Cale and Eric Clapton called The Road to Escondido and performed with three bands in 17 countries that year.
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Derek Trucks was invited to perform at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, and after the festival, he toured as part of Clapton's band.
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Derek Trucks built a studio in his home in January 2008, which he and his band used to record their album: Already Free.
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In 2010, Derek Trucks formed the Tedeschi Derek Trucks Band with his wife.
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On January 8,2014, Derek Trucks announced that he and fellow guitarist Warren Haynes planned to leave the Allman Brothers Band at the end of 2014.
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That band announced its retirement, with Derek Trucks playing as a member through their final show on October 28,2014, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
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Derek Trucks's music is rooted in blues and rock, embracing jam band, Southern rock, and jazz.
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Derek Trucks plays an eclectic blend of blues, soul, jazz, rock, qawwali music, Latin music, and other kinds of world music Derek Trucks became a fan of Khan, a Hindustani classical musician known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod and popularising Indian classical music in the West, often in conjunction with sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.
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Derek Trucks studied at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California.
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Derek Trucks plays guitar in an open E tuning, using his signature glass slide by Dunlop, modeled off of an old Coricidin bottle but without the seam.
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Derek Trucks has appeared twice in Rolling Stones list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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Derek Trucks was listed as 81st in 2003 and 16th in 2011.
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In 2007, Derek Trucks appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone for an article called the "New Guitar Gods".
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Derek Trucks is a creative guitarist according to his uncle, the late Allman Brothers drummer Butch Derek Trucks: "He never does the same thing twice".
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In 2010, The Derek Trucks Band won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for the album Already Free.
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On February 12,2012, Derek Trucks accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award along with 10 other members of The Allman Brothers Band.
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Derek Trucks' late uncle, Butch Derek Trucks, was a founding member and drummer of The Allman Brothers Band.
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Derek Trucks's younger brother is Duane Trucks, who is a member of Widespread Panic and Hard Working Americans.
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Derek Trucks's great-uncle, Virgil Trucks, was a major league baseball pitcher in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 177 games in his career.
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In 2001, Derek Trucks married singer and musician Susan Tedeschi, and they had a son in March 2002 and a daughter in 2004.
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Derek Trucks is a fan of the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars.